A nice combination of previous themes with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
Published by bernie4444 , 1 month ago
The Creeping Flesh (1973).
Emmanuel Hildern (Peter Cushing) tells a story of his return from Papua New Guinea with a specimen in bone that proves long before our ape ancestors, there were thinking creatures. He has decided that they are evil. All you have to do is add water to prove it. From there, we see the handling and mishandling of evil. I will not go into the story, as you will want to kibitz.
This is a nice, creepy Victorian-era monster movie. I thought Christopher Lee would be the monster as usual. However, he turns out to be the wicked half-brother, or maybe not.
It has all the pathos and misery of a “Hammer” production, but it is just a composite of that type of movie. The ending looks like it was taken straight out of “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (1920).
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